Incredibly "cool"! The physical-chip-swapping version of the cold-boot attack is extremely general, but it's always been very labor intensive—that's why automation like this could be a game changer.

Here are some photos from our original experiments 15 years ago, to help you picture what's involved in doing these attacks manually:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080225131822/http://citp.princ...

Needless to say, our setup (and approach to lab safety) was rather privative by today's standards:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100616201843/http://citp.princ...